معرفی
Wenwen Cheng is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She holds a Ph.D. in Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning from Texas A&M University, specializing in microclimatic landscape research and design. Her work focuses on creating climatically responsive and sustainable landscapes to enhance resilience, equity, and health for vulnerable populations across scales.
Dr. Cheng employs interdisciplinary methods such as remote sensing, spatial statistics, and energy budget modeling to integrate health, climatic, environmental, and socio-economic factors. Her key research areas include urban heat island mitigation, heat vulnerability assessment under climate change, resilient community planning, evidence-based microclimatic design, and thermal comfort for children. She also explores low-cost meteorological instrumentation for field studies.
Her research outputs span diverse topics from urban tick abundance dynamics to UVR-safe playgrounds and social media analysis of park equity. These studies emphasize actionable solutions for climate adaptation, public health, and environmental justice.
Notable contributions include developing heat vulnerability indices using energy budget models and leveraging machine learning with citizen science data for avian mortality analysis. Her work bridges ecological, technological, and social dimensions to address urban sustainability challenges.
